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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (286288)	5/1/2006 1:27:26 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576250

I don't know what you do for a living, but do you think that we should take everyone across the globe that does the same or a similar job, average their earnings, and then pay everyone (yourself included) that amount? No. How about vacation time? How about it? You seem to be on vacation a lot, should we average the vacation time? Everyone on the planet is entitled to try to get my job. I'm a foreigner in a foreign land = no job security! I got the job a while back, but if someone convinces the people who hire that they can do the same (or better) job as me for less pay (or less vacation), and the people who hire think the change of personnel is OK, then I'll lose the job. I won't whine "the government should have protected me..." I haven't said ALL people should be paid the same. I've said that the wage pressure that moderately skilled or unskilled labor is experiencing in the US is partly due to someone else on the planet doing the same job for less. It's capitalism, it's free trade and it's good for the planet. The US low skill worker gets a lower wage, and the non-US low skilled worker gets a higher wage, and probably the product is less expensive for all of us end customers. That's productivity at work. The $35 per hour factory worker of the 1980s was overpaid, and that's why he is going extinct. The alternative (keeping US manufactuing inside the US at ~$20 per hour) would result in the end of not only US manufacturing, but the entire US companies involved. There is no way that Motorola can assemble cell phones in the US at $10 per hour and compete globally with Nokia if Nokia is assembling their cell phones in Vietnam and paying its Vietnamese workers $5 per day. What in the world is the policy that you are advocating?